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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
Volume 128, Issue 967, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/128/967/095004
Keywords
astrometry; instrumentation: adaptive optics
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- W.M. Keck Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1412615] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present a new geometric distortion model for the narrow-field mode of the near-infrared camera (NIRC2) fed by the adaptive optics system on the W. M. Keck II telescope. The adaptive optics system and NIRC2 camera were realigned on 2015 April 13. Observations of the crowded globular cluster, M53, were obtained before and after the realignment to characterize the geometric field distortion. The distorted NIRC2 positions of M53 stars were compared with precise astrometry of this cluster from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The resulting distortion map constructed just before the realignment is consistent with the previous solution derived using data from 2007 to 2009, indicating that the distortion has been stable to similar to 0.5 mas. The distortion map changed significantly after a realignment of 4.5 mas (75%) rms, and the new distortion model for post-realignment observations have a total accuracy of similar to 1.1 mas.
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